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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30,1954 BLYTHEV1LLE (AKR.) COTOIEK NEWS PAGE «Vl Oppenheimer Must Bear AEC Verdict; Can't Find Obsurity By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer will bear until he dies — as if he wore it as a mark on his forehead — the government verdict tha 4 he is a security risk who cannot be trusted with his country's secrets. An ordinary man, brushed aside like this, might disappear into obscurity. The 50-year- old Oppenheimer never can. He is a genius. He is among the top five or six * theoretical physicists of the world. He directed the making of a wartime A-bomb. He is head of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. He is known to scientists everywhere. Working with them and exchanging ideas with them has been his life. He can hardly begin another. The drama of the rest of his days may not be as spectacular as the drama of the last 12 months but it will be just as intense because it will probably be more quietly personal. It was almost 12 months ago — July 7, 1953—that Lewis L. Strauss. who only three days before had become chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), ordered a re-examination to determine whether the government should continue to trust Oppenheimer with some of its most vital secrets. Many Testified In December Strauss informed Oppenheimer the reply was no. It wasn't final. Oppenheimer could ask, and did, for a hearing before a special board set up by the AEC. Oppenheimer testified at the inquiry and so did dozens of others. Most of the witnesses said he was trustworthy. A few said he wasn't. The board decided he was loyal but not a man to be trusted with secrets and reviewed his story: He had been a fellow traveler. He had Communist friends. He attended meetings with them. He wa«. engaged to one woman who was a Communist' and married another who had been. His brother and sister-in-law were Communists for Just in Time For July 4th Shoes for the entire Family a. time. All that was before he went to work on the atomic bomb. After that one of his old friends, Haakon Chevalier, tried to tap him for information for the Communists and was turned down. Oppenheimer delayed telling the government about this, then lied about it, later told the truth. He continued his friendship with Chevalier, visited with him as late as last December. Oppenheimer appealed to the full five-man AEC. Yesterday it upheld the previous verdict: he was a security risk. The vote was 4-1. The one commissioner who did not consider Oppenheimer a security risk was Dr. Henry D. Smyth. No Secrets Given The majority of the AEC did not suggest, and there was no evidence of any kind to show it, that Oppenheimer ever gave any government secrets away. Smyth stressed this: ". . . The most important evidence in this regard is the fact that there is no indication in the entire record that Dr. Oppenheimer has ever divulged any secret information." This, among other reasons given by Smyth as a defense for Oppenheimer, may trouble many fair- minded men who read the record and asfc themselves what they would have done if they had been sitting in judgment on Oppenheimer. Yet this particular point hardly bears examination in this case. If there was any evidence that Oppenheimer had given away secrets there would have been no doubt he was a security risk and he wouldn't be a problem for the AEC then. His case would be before a grand jury. The majority of the commission decided Oppenheimer was a security risk because of "defects in his character" — they pointed to his lying — and to his association with "communists, not before fee was entrusted with seeders, but afterwards. If the long opinion of- the ma- iority could be summed up in a few "sentences, this would be it: When a man is entrusted with high secrets which may affect the nation's welfare, he is given high responsibility. He is considered capable of. living up to that responsibility or he wouldn't be given the secrets. There are clear rules laid dovn by which his responsibility, or sense of responsibility, can be judged. Association with Communists makes his sense of responsibility suspect. The AEC held Oppenheimer violated the rules and defaulted on his responsibility. Catholic Schools At Nashville Open to Negroes NASHVILLE, Tenn. «*— The Most Rev. William L. Adrian, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, has ordered all parochial schools in the city opened to both Negro and white students.- The Rev. Charles M. Williams, chancellor of the diocese, which includes all of Tennessee, said the order applies only to Nashville. He said decisions on segregation elsewhere in the state will be made later. The decision, he said, was taken in accordance with the recent Supreme Court- decision banning segregation in public schools. Girt* DURHAM, England UB — Judge Clifford Cohen granted Thomas R. 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